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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in small enterprises in Viet Nam
Phạm, Thị Thu Hang - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965871
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Creating a conducive policy environment for employment creation in SMMEs in South Africa
Mollentz, Jennifer - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Examines the role of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in employment and the economy in South Africa and assesses the impact of the policy and legislative environment on these enterprises. Focuses on the number and quality of jobs being created in the sector.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966516
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877680
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Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China
Yuan, Yan; Rong, Zhao; Xu, Lihe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In this paper, we suggest a … gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance. Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881194
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PROSPECTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO THE CHALLENGE OF JOB CREATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
MAHADEA, DARMA - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 04, pp. 1250020-1
Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth. Unemployment in South Africa is presently at about 25 … challenge. Entrepreneurship, through the creation of new ventures and expansion of business firms, can make a difference to … the entrepreneurial environmental conditions in South Africa and then examines how entrepreneurship can make a difference …
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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1
survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883091
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Traditional economic theory posits that a well functioning capital market is a necessary condition for industrialization and economic growth. However, in reality it is observed that micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913549
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Burgeoning Chinese postpartum nursing enterprises and birth tourism - the perspective from transaction cost entrepreneurship
Yan, Ho-Don; Chen, Chyong Ling Judy - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 502-518
The one-month confinement (or doing the month, DM) for post-partum women is a tradition that has been practiced for millennia in Chinese society. Tedious preparations and numerous procedures of DM incur high transaction costs when purchasing the service from the market. To assure the practice of...
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Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China
Wang, Shing-Yi - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 532-551
entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting … mechanisms that might explain how the reform increased entrepreneurship. I find evidence that the reform reduced labor mobility …
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